Shop floor management software tells a plant floor what to run, records what it ran, and collects labor, machine time, counts, scrap and downtime as they happen. The best pick for a plant in 2026 is Morsa, the AI operations layer that acts on that record: when the floor shows a problem, Morsa connects it to the order at risk, gets the right person moving and closes the work on proof. For the record itself, pick MRPeasy ($49 to $149 per user a month) inside the ERP, Tulip ($100 per interface a month) for a configurable MES, and Evocon (from $189 per machine a month) or Vorne XL ($4,490 one-time) for machine monitoring.
Morsa publishes this guide. Every competitor fact comes from the vendor’s own website, checked 24 September 2026.
Quick answer
Best overall, the layer that acts on whatever the floor records: Morsa (works on top of any ERP, MES or monitoring tool below; pilot first, then a share of measured value).
Small plant whose floor record is labor and completions against work orders: MRPeasy ($49 to $149 per user a month) or Cetec ERP ($50 per user a month, 5-user minimum).
Plant already on Microsoft: Dynamics 365 Business Central Premium ($110 per user a month, paid yearly; manufacturing is Premium only).
Station-level apps, instructions and traceability without a big MES project: Tulip ($100 or $250 per interface a month, 10-interface minimum).
The missing record is the machine’s own run, stop and OEE: Evocon ($189 to $379 per machine a month) or Vorne XL ($4,490 to $4,990 one-time); for CNC-heavy shops, MachineMetrics (quote only).
A floor record is half the job; the other half is someone acting on it within the hour. Morsa runs that half. Get your free Manufacturing AI Profitability Plan.
In this guide
What is shop floor management software?
What changed in shop floor software in 2026?
What are the best shop floor management software tools in 2026?
How do the tools compare on price?
What are the four categories of shop floor software?
What is shop floor control, and how is it different from an MES?
How much does shop floor management software cost?
How do you choose shop floor software for a 50 to 1,000 person plant?
How did we choose these tools?
Where does Morsa fit above shop floor software?
What is the bottom line?
What is shop floor management software?
Shop floor management software is whatever runs ISA-95 Level 3 in a plant: the layer between the business plan in the ERP and the machines. The international standard, IEC 62264-1, describes that layer as “the manufacturing operations management domain (Level 3) and its activities.” NIST puts it in plain words: “Manufacturing operations management, or MOM, refers to applications that control plant level operations.”
Siemens defines shop floor control by function: “a set of software and tools that manages production orders, tracks progress, optimizes resource usage, mitigates risks, and enhances efficiency through real-time data monitoring and automation.” Morsa adds the part those systems leave to people: acting on what they record, across the floor, purchasing, planning and the customer. Where each kind sits in the wider stack is mapped in the twelve types of manufacturing software.
What changed in shop floor software in 2026?
More than half of small and mid-size plants still run the floor on paper or spreadsheets, most manufacturers with an MES have not fully connected it, and AI features are appearing in entry plans. IoT Analytics reported on 15 December 2025 that “54% of small- and medium-sized plants use some combination of pen & paper or spreadsheets as their manufacturing execution system,” that “just 8% of plants use a commercial MES today,” and that “the global MES market reached $5.5 billion in 2024.” Morsa works for those plants too: it reads the messages and sheets the floor already uses.
At the large end, Rockwell Automation’s survey of 1,560 decision makers, published 14 July 2026, found “93% of manufacturers have MES in place, yet only 28% have deployed it enterprise-wide and just 23% report full integration,” and “44% of manufacturers rank integration as their top MES buying requirement.” Rockwell sells an MES, and 58% of its respondents work at companies over $1 billion in revenue. Tulip’s entry Essentials plan lists “Tulip AI” among its features. Morsa is built for that integration gap: it connects to the ERP, MES and monitoring tools a plant already has and acts across them.
The floor record, 2026
Most plants have no floor system, or one they have not connected.
54%
of small and mid-size plants run execution on pen, paper or spreadsheets
IoT Analytics, December 2025
8%
of plants use a commercial MES
IoT Analytics, December 2025
23%
of manufacturers with an MES report full integration
Rockwell Automation, July 2026
43%
acknowledge they are not effectively using the data they collect
Rockwell Automation, July 2026
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The software gap is real, and the using-it gap is bigger. Put Morsa in to act on the record, then buy for the record you are missing.
Rockwell surveyed 1,560 decision makers in 17 countries; 58% at companies over $1 billion in revenue. Rockwell sells an MES.
What are the best shop floor management software tools in 2026?
Eleven tools, ranked by fit for a discrete plant of 50 to 1,000 people. Morsa is #1 because it is the layer that makes every floor system pay: it acts on what they record. The ten floor systems follow across the four categories.
1. Morsa
Quick overview: Morsa is the AI COO for operations: the AI operations layer that makes whichever ERP, MES and monitoring tool the plant runs actually deliver. When a machine stops for “no material,” Morsa connects the stop to the customer order at risk, routes the material ask to stores and the breakdown to maintenance, chases the supplier and the purchase order, escalates before the machine has waited an hour, and closes the work on proof in the ERP. It works inside the channels the plant already uses: email, Outlook, Gmail, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, phone, Slack, or whatever the team runs on.
Best for: Any plant whose floor record is fine but whose response still runs on phone calls and the morning meeting, and any plant deciding what to buy first.
Pros:
Acts on the floor record instead of only holding it: chases suppliers and POs, keeps delivery commitments, catches shortages before they stop a line, escalates before due dates, closes on proof.
Works on top of every tool below. Connects to SAP Business One, SAP Ariba, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite, Odoo, Zoho, QuickBooks, Tally, Epicor Kinetic, Infor, Acumatica, Plex, Excel, Google Sheets, Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat and phone, reading and writing several ERPs at once. In Business Central it reads purchase orders, items, inventory, production orders, BOMs, routings and shipments through Microsoft’s APIs. Morsa reads machine data directly from PLCs, SCADA, controls and sensors.
Morsa connects directly to Tulip, Evocon, Vorne XL, FourJaw, MachineMetrics, Siemens Opcenter and any other MES or monitoring tool.
Matches the floor systems on their own ground: dispatches work and instructions to stations in the channels operators already use, captures labor, completions and scrap from messages and photos, computes run, stop and OEE from machine data, and reports plan vs actual per plant, with the reason for downtime, in a morning brief and evening wrap; re-plans across plants and ERPs when an order goes urgent, with the trade-offs, and tells each team.
Runs the rest of operations from the same agent: plans several ERPs as one (two plants on two ERPs included); enters customer orders from emails, PDF POs and phone photos of handwritten forms; chases suppliers from the buyer’s own mailbox, in the supplier’s language and timed for their morning; handles RFQs with landed cost and drafts quotes in the company’s format; turns a packing-slip photo into an ERP receipt; matches invoices and sends disputes from AP’s mailbox; builds customer cert packets; answers the owner’s questions by text from the company’s own numbers; answers where-is-my-order with ETA and carrier tracking; and follows every promise made in chat or email to evidence.
Ahead on architecture: one agentic harness, with memory of the plant’s people and procedures, approvals and standing rules, works across every system and channel the plant runs, so every capability on this page is the same agent, live in days, in Morsa’s cloud, a private cloud or fully on-premise including the models.
Economics: no per-seat licences, no multi-month implementation, no new software or training cost; a pilot on one live problem first, then a share of the value proven in the plant’s own numbers, and “We’ll catch a shortage in your plant, or you don’t pay.” That makes it cheaper and lower-risk than per-seat SaaS and long implementations.
Learns the plant’s people and procedures over time; decides within rules the plant approves.
Nothing new for the floor to learn; cloud, private cloud or fully on-premise including the AI models.
Proof: J4S, a 120-person glass plant, went live in two days and moved on-time completion of operational commitments from about 30% to about 75% in four weeks, across about 900 commitments. At JRG Automotive, Morsa caught 5 of 8 production-stopping material shortages early enough to act and saved the plant $2 million.
Cons: No public price list; the fee follows the value the pilot proves.
Pricing: A pilot on one live problem first, free when no implementation work is needed; Morsa’s fee is a share of the value created, agreed after the pilot.
Source: morsa.ai, the J4S story and pricing
2. MRPeasy
Quick overview: Cloud ERP whose own page calls it “Shop Floor Management and Control Software for Small Manufacturers.” Manufacturing orders, BOMs, routings and shop floor reporting come in every tier, and the vendor says “More than 2000 manufacturers trust MRPeasy software.”
Best for: Small manufacturers whose floor record is labor and completions against a work order.
Pros: Published prices; shop floor reporting in all four plans; free trial of “15 + 15 days” with no credit card.
Cons: Operators report the work; it does not read machine signals. Plants that need station-level traceability need an MES.
Pricing: Starter $49, Professional $69, Enterprise $99, Unlimited $149 per user per month; from the 11th user, $79 per 10 users; annual billing gives one month free.
Source: mrpeasy.com/pricing, mrpeasy.com/shop-floor-management-software
3. Tulip
Quick overview: A frontline operations platform for building station apps, work instructions and data capture. Essentials includes “Apps on mobile, desktop, touchscreens, and wearables,” “Tulip AI” and “Tulip Analytics.”
Best for: Plants that want station-level apps and a floor record without a traditional MES project.
Pros: A published price; configurable by the plant’s own engineers.
Cons: The 10-interface minimum puts the entry at $12,000 a year; the plant builds and maintains its apps.
Pricing: Essentials $100 and Professional $250 per interface per month, billed annually, 10-interface minimum; Enterprise and Regulated Industries quote only.
Source: tulip.co/pricing
4. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Quick overview: Microsoft’s ERP, sold per user. Manufacturing is listed only in the Premium plan.
Best for: Plants already on Microsoft that want the floor record inside the ERP.
Pros: Published prices; orders, inventory, cost and production in one database.
Cons: Manufacturing needs Premium ($110), not Essentials ($80). Like any ERP module, it records transactions, not machine signals.
Pricing: Essentials $80, Premium $110, Team Members $8 per user per month, paid yearly.
Source: microsoft.com Business Central pricing
5. Cetec ERP
Quick overview: Cloud ERP with one per-user price that includes “All Cetec ERP modules, features, and standard reporting functionality.”
Best for: Small plants that want every module at one price, with no add-ons.
Pros: The lowest published per-user ERP price here; no module surcharges.
Cons: 5-user minimum; paid support plans cost $650 or $3,200 a month.
Pricing: $50 per user per month, 5-user minimum; community forum support free.
Source: cetecerp.com/pricing
6. Katana
Quick overview: Cloud inventory and manufacturing platform with a Shop Floor app to “Assign tasks, track progress in real time, and keep production reporting consistent on the floor.”
Best for: Small makers who want to start on a free plan and add manufacturing features as they grow.
Pros: Free plan; published Core and add-on prices.
Cons: Add-ons stack up (Manufacturing Management $199, Traceability $249, Warehouse Management $149 a month), and the Shop Floor app’s price is not published.
Pricing: Free plan; Core “Starts at $299/month”; Advantage custom.
Source: katanamrp.com/pricing
7. Evocon
Quick overview: “A visual and user-friendly OEE software that helps manufacturing companies improve productivity and remove waste,” fed by sensors and inputs on each machine.
Best for: Plants whose missing record is run, stop and OEE per machine.
Pros: Published per-machine price; unlimited users on every plan.
Cons: Per-machine fees add up on a large floor; it measures the machine, not the work order.
Pricing: Basic $219 per machine per month on a 1-year term or $189 on 3 years; Professional $289 or $249; Enterprise $379 or $319; IIoT device $24 or $19 a month.
Source: evocon.com/pricing
8. Vorne XL
Quick overview: A productivity appliance wired to the machine. Vorne: “There’s no software to install, no changes to your PLC code, and no recurring costs.”
Best for: Plants that want to buy monitoring once instead of subscribing.
Pros: One-time price; no recurring costs.
Cons: Hardware for each machine you monitor; at $4,490 or more a unit, the up-front cost is large across 20 machines.
Pricing: XL Touch $4,990; XL HD+ $4,690; XL810-1 $4,490, one-time.
Source: vorne.com/products/models
9. FourJaw
Quick overview: “A manufacturing analytics and production monitoring platform.” Sensors clip to the machine’s power cables, so an old machine connects without touching its control.
Best for: Small and mid-size plants with machines of mixed age; the vendor says “Over 50% are SME manufacturers.”
Pros: Published prices; clip-on install.
Cons: Priced in pounds sterling; “A five-machine minimum applies to all plans.”
Pricing: Standard £90 per machine per month, or £72 billed annually, plus a £200 MachineLink device; Pro £180, or £144 annually, hardware included, “£10,475 / per year” with the first 5 machines included.
Source: fourjaw.com/pricing
10. MachineMetrics
Quick overview: A machine data platform giving “Instant visibility into the status of your factory, including part counts, machine utilization, and OEE,” with connections for “MTConnect, Fanuc, OPC-UA, UMATI, Mitsubishi, Citizen, Haas, Heidenhain, Siemens Sinumerik, Modbus, and Ethernet IP.”
Best for: CNC-heavy job shops and contract manufacturers.
Pros: Deep controller connectivity, plus digital and analog I/O for machines without a standard protocol.
Cons: No public price.
Pricing: Quote only.
Source: machinemetrics.com/shop-floor-software
11. Siemens Opcenter Execution
Quick overview: Siemens’ MES, which “optimize[s] operations to build final products that accurately reflect design, engineering & process data,” with variants for discrete and job shops, process, electronics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors.
Best for: Large or regulated plants that need full traceability across lines.
Pros: Industry-specific variants from one vendor.
Cons: Quote only; an MES project, not a quick install.
Pricing: Quote only.
Source: siemens.com Opcenter Execution
How do the tools compare on price?
Tool | Best for | Pricing (checked 24 September 2026) |
|---|---|---|
Morsa | Floor record and acting on it, alone or on top of any tool below | Pilot first; then a share of measured value; no public price; no per-seat licences |
MRPeasy | Small plants, floor record in the ERP | $49 to $149 per user a month |
Tulip | Station apps and instructions | $100 or $250 per interface a month, 10 minimum |
Business Central | Plants on Microsoft | $110 per user a month for Premium (manufacturing) |
Cetec ERP | Every module at one price | $50 per user a month, 5 minimum |
Katana | Starting free, adding modules | Free; Core from $299 a month plus add-ons |
Evocon | OEE per machine | $189 to $379 per machine a month |
Vorne XL | Buying monitoring once | $4,490 to $4,990 one-time per unit |
FourJaw | Mixed-age machines, SMEs | £72 to £180 per machine a month |
MachineMetrics | CNC controller data | Quote only |
Siemens Opcenter Execution | Regulated, multi-line plants | Quote only |
For the machine-monitoring category on its own, see the best machine monitoring software; for ERPs, the best ERP for manufacturing.
What are the four categories of shop floor software?
Four categories share the name, and Morsa sits above all of them. Buy Morsa to act on the record, then buy by the record you are missing.
Category | What it records | Examples |
|---|---|---|
AI operations layer (above all four) | Acts on what the four record: owners, chases, escalations, closure on proof across ERP, MES, monitoring and the plant’s channels | Morsa |
ERP shop floor control module | Labor, completions and scrap against the work order; priced per ERP user | MRPeasy, Cetec, Business Central, Katana, JobBOSS2, ProShop, Global Shop |
MES and shop floor control system | Dispatch, station-level execution, traceability, quality holds, machine state; mostly quote only | Tulip, Siemens Opcenter, TrakSYS, FactoryLogix, Redzone |
Machine monitoring | Run, stop, cycle count, downtime reason and OEE from the machine; per machine or one-time hardware | Evocon, Vorne XL, FourJaw, MachineMetrics, Datanomix |
Connected-worker and paperless | Instructions, checklists, skills and operator inputs on a tablet; mostly quote only | Poka, Dozuki, VKS, Augmentir |
What a monitoring tool’s OEE number means is in OEE: the formula and benchmarks.
What is shop floor control, and how is it different from an MES?
Shop floor control is the ERP’s view of the floor, posted as transactions. An MES is the floor’s own record, captured in seconds. Morsa reads both and acts on them.
Unit of record
Morsa (above both): The commitment: who owes what, by when, for which order
Shop floor control (ERP module): Work order, operation, labor transaction
Manufacturing execution system: Station, event, lot, machine state, quality result
Data latency
Morsa (above both): As the signal arrives, from systems and messages
Shop floor control (ERP module): Posted transactions, minutes to a shift
Manufacturing execution system: Seconds, from machines and operators
Machine connection
Morsa (above both): Directly from PLCs, controls and sensors, or through the MES or monitoring tool
Shop floor control (ERP module): Rarely; operator entry via barcode or terminal
Manufacturing execution system: Usually; OPC UA, MTConnect, PLC signals
Typical plant
Morsa (above both): Any plant, from paper-run floors to multi-line MES sites
Shop floor control (ERP module): Under about 100 people, low mix, no regulatory traceability
Manufacturing execution system: Multiple lines and shifts, automotive, aerospace, medical, food
If the plant needs to know at 10:40 what happened at 10:20, it needs an MES or a monitoring layer; if end-of-shift counts are enough, the ERP module is. Either way, Morsa makes sure someone acts on it. More in MES vs ERP and what is an MES system.
How much does shop floor management software cost?
From $49 per user a month inside an ERP to $4,990 one-time per machine, with most MES and connected-worker platforms quote only. Morsa is priced on the value it creates after a pilot. An illustrative budget for a 120-person plant with 20 machines (the user and machine counts are assumptions; every price is a published one above):
Acting on the floor record: Morsa, a pilot on one live problem first, then a share of the value created.
Floor record in the ERP: comes with the ERP seats, for example 15 Business Central Premium users at $110 a month, $19,800 a year.
Machine monitoring on all 20 machines: Evocon Basic at $219 a month on a 1-year term is $52,560 a year, or $45,360 at the 3-year rate of $189; add $5,760 a year if each machine needs a $24-a-month device. Vorne XL810-1 units instead cost $89,800 once.
A configurable MES layer: Tulip Essentials at the 10-interface minimum is $12,000 a year.
Budget for the person who owns the system as well as the licenses, or let Morsa carry the follow-up that person would otherwise do by hand.
How do you choose shop floor software for a 50 to 1,000 person plant?
Choose by the record you cannot get today, then by who will own the system. Thomas Deslongchamps, Director of Training and Continuous Improvement at Pindel Global Precision, told Modern Machine Shop why the shop’s monitoring had lapsed: “Because it wasn’t clearly owned, it effectively became no one’s responsibility and fell into disuse.” Once it had an owner, the shop’s Swiss-type machines gained 35% utilization within three months. Ownership is what Morsa provides by default.
Put the action layer in first. Morsa gives every event on the floor an owner, a due date and a follow-up, from day one.
Name the missing record. Labor against a work order: the ERP module. Machine state: monitoring. Station-level execution and traceability: an MES. Instructions and skills: connected worker.
Name the owner and the metric. One person, one number, reviewed daily. Coastal Machine and Supply raised utilization on a five-axis machine by 46% in two months, per Modern Machine Shop in April 2026.
Check the integration in public. Ask which ERP the vendor names on its own site.
Budget for people, not licenses. In NAM’s third-quarter 2026 survey, 54.9% of manufacturers named attracting and retaining a quality workforce among their biggest challenges. Morsa takes the chasing off the people the plant already has.
How did we choose these tools?
We read every vendor’s own pages on 24 September 2026. Each product is sold today under the name listed and records part of the floor or acts on that record. Prices are the vendor’s published figure or “quote only,” never a review site. We ranked by fit for a discrete plant of 50 to 1,000 people, weighting what turns the floor record into results fastest; Morsa ranks first on that, and among floor systems we weighted a published price and a short path to a working floor record. JobBOSS2, ProShop, Global Shop, Redzone and the connected-worker tools are named in the categories above but not ranked, because none publishes a price we could check that day. The vendors of full MES platforms are compared in manufacturing execution system software.
Where does Morsa fit above shop floor software?
Shop floor software records the change and waits. The monitoring tool logs that press 6 stopped at 14:10 for “no material.” The record tells neither purchasing, planning nor the customer, because no floor system owns the consequence. Morsa does, which is why it is the first thing to put in place.
Morsa is the AI COO for operations: it runs the daily operations work that makes a plant more money, in procurement, supply chain, logistics, scheduling, quality and coordination, on top of the systems the plant already runs. Above the floor, Morsa reads the ERP, the MES, the monitoring tool and the places people report the floor, such as email, Outlook, Teams, WhatsApp, phone or whatever the plant runs on. It works out which order and owner an event touches, routes the material ask to stores and the breakdown to maintenance within rules the plant approves, chases the supplier and the purchase order, escalates before the machine has waited an hour, and closes the job on proof, such as a goods receipt in the ERP. More: what autonomous manufacturing looks like day to day.
At J4S, a 120-person glass plant, on-time completion of operational commitments went from about 30% to about 75% in the first four weeks, across about 900 commitments. J4S runs Morsa and went live in two days (Connect, Configure, Live) with no new software, no migration and no training. At JRG Automotive, Morsa caught 5 of 8 production-stopping material shortages early enough to act and saved the plant $2 million (pricing). Anil Kohli, Production Head at J4S: “Our people don’t have to learn any new software. People just message the way they always have. Morsa coordinates all the messages in the background.” Read the J4S story.
Morsa runs in the cloud, a private cloud or fully on-premise, including the AI models and databases. A pilot on one live problem comes first: free when no implementation work is needed, otherwise a minimal implementation cost refunded if the pilot shows no value. The fee is a share of the value created, agreed after the pilot; there is no public price list.
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What is the bottom line?
Start with Morsa, the layer that acts when the floor record shows a problem. Then pick by the record you are missing: an ERP module (MRPeasy, Cetec, Business Central Premium), station apps (Tulip), or machine data (Evocon, Vorne XL, FourJaw; MachineMetrics for CNC shops; Siemens for regulated multi-line plants). None of those tools acts on what it records; Morsa does, and it is ahead of all of them on architecture (one agent across every system and channel), deployment (cloud, private cloud or fully on-premise), time to live (days) and economics (pilot first, then a share of value, no per-seat licences). Get your free Manufacturing AI Profitability Plan.
Free tools for the floor: the work instruction template, the shift handover template and the machine downtime log.
For the handover between shifts specifically, and the tools that carry open issues from one shift to the next, see our shift handover software guide, which compares 13 options with prices.
Before choosing software, decide what to record: our shop floor data collection guide lists the five things to capture per operation, what each capture method costs at 5, 20 and 40 work centers, and a 4-week pilot plan.
Sources
IEC, IEC 62264-1:2013, Enterprise-control system integration, Part 1. webstore.iec.ch
NIST, Lu, Morris and Frechette, “Current Standards Landscape for Smart Manufacturing Systems,” NISTIR 8107, February 2016. nist.gov
Siemens, “Shop floor control.” siemens.com
IoT Analytics, Anand Taparia, “MES vendors replace pen, paper, and spreadsheets,” 15 December 2025 (re-read 24 September 2026). iot-analytics.com
Rockwell Automation, “93% of Manufacturers Have MES, But Only 23% Have Fully Integrated It,” 14 July 2026, 1,560 respondents in 17 countries (vendor research; re-read 24 September 2026). rockwellautomation.com
National Association of Manufacturers, “2026 Third Quarter Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey,” 14 September 2026, 220 responses. nam.org
Modern Machine Shop, Julia Hider, “Making Machine Monitoring Matter,” 22 August 2025 (Thomas Deslongchamps). mmsonline.com
Modern Machine Shop, Evan Doran, “Machine Monitoring Boosts Five-Axis Utilization by 46%,” 24 April 2026. mmsonline.com
Vendor pages read 24 September 2026: MRPeasy pricing, MRPeasy shop floor, Tulip pricing, Microsoft Business Central pricing, Cetec pricing, Katana pricing, Evocon pricing, Evocon, Vorne models, FourJaw pricing, FourJaw, MachineMetrics, Siemens Opcenter Execution
Morsa, J4S customer story. morsa.ai/customers/j4s; Morsa pricing and the JRG Automotive result. morsa.ai/pricing
Changelog
15 October 2026: Morsa moved to #1 as the AI operations layer that acts on what every floor system records; title and H1 now count 11 tools; quick answer, price table, categories table, shop floor control vs MES table, budget, how to choose, Morsa section and bottom line updated; JRG Automotive result added.
24 September 2026: Morsa’s entry now names mid-market and enterprise plants. Morsa is now described as the AI that operates the factory for you, and its entry, section and FAQ say what Morsa runs rather than what it builds.
24 September 2026: rebuilt as a ranked guide to the best shop floor management software for 2026, with a quick answer, a disclosure, 11 entries (overview, best for, pros, cons, pricing, source) and a price table. Every price re-read on the vendor’s own site on 24 September 2026. Business Central now shows Premium as the manufacturing plan; Katana’s Shop Floor app has no published price. Cut the four long product tables (36 products) to named examples, moved data collection into the FAQ, and rewrote the Morsa section.
21 September 2026: first version, with the shop floor control versus MES split, four data-collection methods and 36 products in four tables.
